John W. Brown, and v. Raymond J. Buchkoe, Warden, Michigan Branch Prison, Marquette, Michigan, And

John W. Brown was convicted in the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne in the State of Michigan of the offense of robbery unarmed, and is at present serving a sentence of from five to fifteen years’ imprisonment in the Marquette State Prison. He filed his petition in the district court for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he was denied the right to a review of his conviction by the state courts of Michigan, and that the State of Michigan refused to provide him with the means necessary to effect an appeal. He also petitioned that the district judge, before whom the habeas corpus…